As sophisticated AIs rapidly become a bigger part of human lives, their makers will engineer them to display a simulacrum of ...

Enrichement technology is needed to supply fuel for nuclear reactors, but the same technology can make the fuel for a nuclear ...

No job is too big,” vows their heartwarming motto, „no pup’s too small!” Don’t be fooled: some say the cartoon heroes of „Paw Patrol” are covert outriders for authoritarian capitalism. „Keep trying, ...

The hyperscalers appear to find it more lucrative to sell AI infrastructure to their cloud customers than splurge valuable ...

Vladimir Putin will not end his war on Ukraine until he believes the costs of fighting on exceed the costs of stopping. The ...

In practice, there are several stages to pass through before that moment arrives, and several more to experience before you ...

The parallel with Britain in the 1980s is striking. Back then Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative prime minister, was enraging the left by curbing unions and privatising state-owned industries.

Football can’t rely on a revolt every time its governing body goes too far, argues Lorin Parys, the head of a European league.

Gaping rich-world budget deficits show little sign of narrowing meaningfully, raising the possibility that governments eventually force central banks to inflate their debts away. Geopolitical ructions ...

As our correspondent reports this week, after a 1,000km road trip inside the country, the Taliban are firmly in charge and the place is largely calm, bar intermittent sparring with its neighbour, ...

Why does the United Nations still exist? The question is timely because the contest is now under way to choose the UN’s next secretary-general, before the two-term incumbent, António Guterres, steps ...

Outsiders have shown callous indifference to the suffering, by paying to keep the fighting going or neglecting it. Yet by ...